Science WorldScience World for grades 6–10 brings science to life with fascinating feature articles and hands-on activities that reinforce science concepts and help students build test-taking and critical-thinking skills.

Talking Science: Fascinating Fish

Watch the interview with a scientist, then virtually travel on a fieldtrip to the Congo River in Africa. Check out photos from the trip and don't miss the "Rough Waters" article from Science World.

Melanie Stiassny is an ichthyologist at the American Museum of Natural History. That means she's a scientist who studies fish. Find more science activities and resources: Science Explorations. And try museum activities at OLogy.

Hi, I'm Melanie Stiassny and I'm an ichthyologist, a scientist who studies fish. At the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, I work on everything that has to do with fish, from research and exhibits to scientific expeditions. Take a look at some photos from my latest expedition to Africa's lower Congo River. It's the home of one of the most diverse fish communities in the world.

The (Fish) Eyes Have It
by Gail Hennessey
Scholastic News Online |
April25,2008
Near a small island in Indonesia, divers have found a very unusual fish that has humanlike eyes that point forward on its very flat face!

Funky-looking Fish
by Laura Leigh Davidson
Scholastic News Online |
March3,2009
What has bulging green eyes, a transparent head, and lives in the dark? It's Macropinna microstoma. Marine biologists discovered the fish in 1939, but until recently had no idea why its head is transparent.